An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.